Download Link For Mummy 3 Set Video

You can now download, or just play, a Flash video from the set of The Mummy 3.

Movie Minesweeper - The Not Many Mines About Edition

- ShockTillYouDrop have claimed Russel Mulcahy is to direct The Scorpion King 2. I'd take The Scorpion King over either of the other Mummy films, no question - it was cheaper, sure, but also more in tune with it's inner camp. I'll go ahead and speculate that this will be a direct-to-DVD title, synchronised with the release of Rob Cohen's Mummy 3. Which is cruel, because Mulcahy is definitely a better filmmaker than Cohen.

- The Box Collector is to star Margot Kidder and Cabin Fever 2's Michael Bowen.

- Kevin Spacey is done with acting.

- The NYTimes have the best article - I think - on the Academy's newly lax 'Producer' rules.

- Kevin Williamson's Hidden Palms is being rushed to an early conclusion. What happened to the midas touch that made Scream and Dawson's Creek so huge?

- The Virgin 1 chequebook and pen has been busy of late. They snapped up the entire Star Trek TV franchise and The Sarah Connor Chronicles for the UK, as well as commissioning the new series The Real Exorcist. Meanwhile, Channel 4 have plumped for Disney's Dirty Sexy Money.

- John Lithgow is joining the RSC. I love John Lithgow. He needs a really good, big part - on screen. Who's going to create it for him? Will he be an Inglorious Bastard?

Mummy Money

As previously reported here - months ago - Rachel Weisz will not be returning to the Mummy franchise in part 3. And not as previously reported here, Brendan Fraser will be.

Essentially, both Fraser and Weisz found the script rather lacklustre. Fraser was eventually seduced, however, by an incredibly lucrative deal - and Weisz may well have been too, had she been offered one. The glass ceiling is alive and well in Hollywood, and Rachel Weisz's nose is smuched against the glass.

Rob Cohen is directing, and he's hardly either visionary or consummate technician. This is likely to be quite a terrible film.

Fraser And Weisz Snubbing Third Mummy

I haven't been keeping up on the projected third Mummy film, so excuse me if this is old news, but I've had it confirmed for me this morning that neither Brendan Fraser or Rachel Weisz will be appearing - at all - in Rob Cohen's upcoming snorefest. A source near the film dropped me a line directly and as I've been skimming Mummy news at best, it certainly seemed to be a bit of new news, and I thought you'd like it.

Apparently, neither Fraser nor Weisz liked the script at all and didn't find it at all hard to root out better projects to do. I mean, there's always wet paint somewhere and hair washing, if done properly, can provide a fully engaging experience. Suffice to say, they have now definitively walked away, brushing their hands clean.

The film will now centre on their characters' son - which was, I think, common knowledge already. It's going to be set in the East too, right? A few bits and bobs have been sinking in.

At this stage, nothing about the project makes it sound any better or worse than the previous two installments. Frankly, I always preferred the kitsch panto of the The Scorpion King spin off anyway.